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  • Managing Insecurities Across the Pacific: The Obama administration's rebalancing toward Asia is confirming for many Chinese that the U.S. is trying to contain it. That's not good for either nation, writes Nina Hachigian.
  • The Case for the Individual Mandate in Health Care Reform: If we want to solve the problems that have plagued the health care system for years, but continue to rely on private health insurance markets, then the most effective solution involves an individual mandate, write Neera Tanden and Topher Spiro.
  • Putting a Freeze on Arctic Ocean Drilling: Kiley Kroh, Michael Conathan, and Emma Huvos outline the shortcomings in the United States' response capabilities to an oil spill in the Arctic.
  • Rehab-to-Rent Can Help Hard-Hit Communities and Our Economy: Alon Cohen, Jordan Eizenga, John Griffith, Bracken Hendricks, and Adam James lay out a plan for removing a portion of government-owned foreclosed properties from the glutted for-sale market by converting them to affordable rental units.
  • Movin’ It and Improvin’ It!: Instead of treating them as “either/or” choices, smart school systems would combine “movin’ it” and “improvin’ it” policies to maximize increases in teaching effectiveness, writes Craig D. Jerald.
  • Universities in Innovation Networks: Krisztina “Z” Holly looks at the vital and extensive role universities play in driving innovation in the United States.
  • Rewiring the Federal Government for Competitiveness: We must reorganize part of the federal government in order to efficiently invest in our future economic competitiveness and scientific innovation, write Johnathan Sallet and Sean Pool.
  • Immigration for Innovation: Marshall Fitz looks at how to enhance labor market mobility and promote economic growth while advancing workforce stability through enforceable labor standards and protections.
  • Economic Intelligence: Andrew D. Reamer looks at ways the federal statistical system can better support the nation's economic competitiveness.
  • Building a Technically Skilled Workforce: Louis Soares and Stephen Steigleder propose a private-public partnership grant program to boost the middle-skill workers that America will require to be globally competitive.
  • Series on U.S. Science, Innovation, and Economic Competitiveness: Two CAP teams, one from Science Progress and the other from the Doing What Works project, release a series of reports focusing on different building blocks of our national competitiveness.
  • Jumping Beyond the Broom: Aisha C. Moodie-Mills looks at issues facing black gay and transgender Americans, and makes recommendations on how to improve the lives of those in this community.
  • Lightening the Load: Wraparound services are extremely beneficial in community schools and help with teacher efficiency, write Theodora Chang and Calyssa Lawyer.
  • Achieving Results Through Community School Partnerships: In order to produce successful students, strong families, and engaged communities, community schools are central to efforts to improve America’s public schools, write Martin J. Blank, Reuben Jacobson, and Atelia Melaville.
  • The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness: Laura Tyson and Greg Linden examine the role of the R&D tax credit in federal government support for research and development.
  • Getting Better at Teacher Preparation and State Accountability: Edward Crowe describes the key findings in separate profiles of the 12 Race to the Top winners and makes policy recommendations directed to the U.S. Department of Education, the winners, and others interested in teacher quality.
  • Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Growing evidence of links between climate change, migration, and conflict raise plenty of reasons for concern and it’s time to start thinking about new answers to these multifaceted crisis scenarios, write Michael Werz and Laura Conley.
  • What Can We Learn from Law School?: Julie Morgan explains how looking at issues in legal education can help us better understand the problems that face all colleges.
  • No Child Left Behind Waiver Applications: In reviewing states' applications for waivers to No Child Left Behind, the Department of Education should not rush to approve every application, ask for more information, and proceed with caution, writes Jeremy Ayers.
  • It All Starts with Training: John Norris, Abigail Long, Sarah Margon, and David Abramowitz explain why the United States should invest more in conflict prevention training.
  • Teaching Children Well: Report from Robert C. Pianta outlines an evidence-based approach to teacher professional development.
  • Designing High Quality Evaluation Systems for High School Teachers: John H. Tyler examines the challenges and potential solutions to evaluating high school teachers.
  • The Path to 270: Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin explain how the shifting demographic balance of the American electorate, and the objective reality and voter perception of the economy in key battleground states will both play huge roles in determining the 2012 presidential election.
  • Including More Student Voices in Higher Education Policymaking: Julie Margetta Morgan and Tsuki Hoshijima look at the role students play in higher education policy, and ways to make students’ voices a more powerful part of the higher education policy conversation.
  • Unintended Roadblocks: Report from Sarah Margon identifies the legislative and policy hurdles that make it difficult for aid groups to do their jobs and how these can be dealt with.
  • Assimilation Tomorrow: Dowell Meyers and John Pitkin examine the future outlook for our nation's immigrants from today to 2030.
  • Teacher Diversity Matters: Policymakers must show the necessary leadership and answer the call for an effective and diverse teacher workforce, writes Ulrich Boser.
  • Increasing Teacher Diversity: Report from Saba Bireda and Robin Chait lays out highly effective strategies for getting more teachers of color in the classroom.
  • Unburdening America’s Middle Class: Christian Weller outlines ways for American workers and their families to get out of high indebtedness.
  • Leveraging Service Blueprinting to Rethink Higher Education: Amy L. Ostrom, Mary Jo Bitner, and Kevin A. Burkhard argue that higher education improvements and innovations should be viewed through a service lens and driven by focusing on students as customers.
  • Creating Unemployment: Scott Lilly demonstrates the consequences that slashing government spending in a weak economy has on jobs.
  • Gateways to the Principalship: Gretchen Rhines Cheney and Jacquelyn Davis explain why schools need to be led by skilled principals who support effective teaching across the entire school.
  • Toward 2050 in Virginia: Julie Ajinkya and Sam Fulwood discuss the need to understand how demographic change will affect our politics and policy, as well as the effort required to ensure accessibility and inclusiveness in an increasingly diverse nation.
  • Progress 2050: Vanessa Cárdenas, Julie Ajinkya, and Daniella Gibbs Leger explain the demographic changes our nation will experience over the next four decades and why a progressive vision is needed to ensure we take advantage of diversity as one of our greatest assets.
  • Federal Investment in Charter Schools: Report from Melissa Lazarín offers recommendations for Congress as it determines how best to support the next generation of effective charter schools.
  • Hunger in America: Donald S. Shepard, Elizabeth Setren, and Donna Cooper discuss the cost of hunger and food insecurity in America.
  • How Georgia’s Anti-Immigration Law Could Hurt the State’s (and the Nation’s) Economy: Tom Baxter explains the possible negative economic effects of new anti-immigrant legislation in Georgia.
  • Redefining Teacher Pensions: Raegen T. Miller offers three recommendations on redefining teacher pension benefits.
  • When Words Get in the Way: Gadi Dechter explains new SEC disclosure rules and what steps can be made toward improving them.
  • A Better, More Diverse Senior Executive Service in 2050: Jitinder Kohli, John Gans, and James Hairston on the need for action to address the diversity gap in the Senior Executive Service.
  • The Jobs Case for Conservation: Jessica Goad, Christy Goldfuss, and Tom Kenworthy identify policies that create jobs by supporting conservation and restoration.
  • All Immigration Is Local: Michael Jones-Correa makes the case for a multisector focus on immigrant-receiving communities.
  • Bringing Business Analytics to the College Campus: Jane V. Wellman and Louis Soares show how business analytics can help improve the return on investment in higher education instruction.
  • Twenty Years of Collapse and Counting: John Norris and Bronwyn Bruton look at the case of Somalia to explore the high cost crisis response rather than prevention.
  • Workers and Their Health Care Plans: Alan Reuther discusses the consequences of the Affordable Care Act’s three central health insurance vehicles on existing employer-provided health insurance coverage.
  • Fear, Inc.: A look at the Islamophobia network that profoundly misrepresents Islam and American Muslims in the United States.
  • Unequal Aid: Crosby Burns discusses the federal financial aid process for LGBT applicants and families headed by same-sex couples.
  • The Need for a Political and Economic Transition Strategy in Afghanistan: John Podesta, Brian Katulis, and Caroline Wadhams outline steps U.S. policymakers can take to promote a successful handover of responsibility to the Afghan government after U.S. troops withdraw.
  • Safer than Ever: Marshall Fitz argues that the changes on the ground at the border demand a change in the conversation in Washington.
  • Measuring Inequity in School Funding: Diana Epstein examines the problem of intrastate fiscal inequity and surveys some of the different measures that are used to characterize a state’s level of funding equity among districts within a state.
  • The Design of the Rhode Island School Funding Formula: Kenneth Wong examines Rhode Island's experience in designing a funding formula for its schools.
  • State Education Agencies as Agents of Change: Cynthia G. Brown, Frederick M. Hess, Daniel K. Lautzenheiser, and Isabel Owen examine state education agencies and recommend ways for these agencies to help public schools better serve our children.
  • “Bundling” Payment for Episodes of Hospital Care: Harriet L. Komisar, Judy Feder, and Paul B. Ginsburg offer guidance for designing a pilot program for bundling Medicare payments.
  • A Return to Responsibility: Lawrence Korb, Laura Conley, and Alex Rothman explain how the president and Congress can learn from past presidents who cut the budget and brought defense spending into balance.
  • Illinois: The New Leader in Education Reform?: Elliot Regenstein looks back on how Illinois passed a landmark education reform bill and what other states can learn from its experience.
  • Reforming Public School Systems Through Sustained Union-Management Collaboration: Saul A. Rubinstein and John E. McCarthy present six successful examples of union-management collaboration in public schools.
  • Reinvigorating Antitrust Enforcement: David Balto assesses the Obama administration's antitrust enforcement up to now and offers recommendations to strengthen that enforcement going forward.
  • The Ryan Medicaid Plan: The Medicaid changes in the Ryan budget plan would have extraordinary implications not only for poor individuals but for a very broad swath of middle-class families, writes Scott Lilly.
  • SHOPping Around: Terry Gardiner and Isabel Perera provide a roadmap for states, policymakers, health reform advocates, and small-business leaders as they begin to create SHOP exchanges.
  • Snapshot of SIG: Jessica Quillin examines implementation of the School Improvement Grant program in California, Illinois, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
  • Charting New Territory: Melissa Lazarín explores the role of charter schools in turning around the nation’s lowest-performing high schools.
  • Grounds for Objection: A significant number of people are unable to afford legal assistance, a serious problem for both litigants and courts, writes Joy Moses.
  • When Second Best Is the Best We Can Do: We must keep pressing for more lawyers while doing everything we can to make the courts less impenetrable for people who struggle to use them without legal representation.
  • The Justice Gap: Congress should help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Legal Services Corporation to better serve civil legal aid programs.
  • Access to Evidence: New practices can help millions of Americans access the legal assistance they need.
  • A Way Forward: CAP's Education Team outlines how Congress should move forward with the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
  • Addressing Race and Genetics: Michael J. Rugnetta and Khusboo Desai examine issues regarding racial and ethnic health disparities that need to be addressed in order for personalized medicine to offer the greatest benefit to all.
  • Partnering for Compensation Reform: Meg Sommerfeld explains how compensation-reform programs can be implemented with support from unions and district officials, and produce winning results.
  • Low-carbon Innovation: Bracken Hendricks, Sean Pool, and Lisbeth Kaufman explain how low-carbon industrial strategies can ensure American sustained leadership in innovation.
  • Not Again: Christian E. Weller and Jaryn Fields explain why energy price volatility hurts families, businesses, and the economy.
  • Budgeting for Growth and Prosperity: Michael Ettlinger, Michael Linden, and Seth Hanlon present a plan for long-term deficit reduction that builds a strong American economy.
  • Speaking of Salaries: Frank Adamson and Linda Darling-Hammond examine the role of salaries in hiring and retaining effective teachers.
  • Payment Police 2.0: Marsha Simon outlines how to save billions by addressing improper Medicare and Medicaid payments.
  • Preparing for Growth: Christi Chadwick and Julie Kowal examine how charter management organizations can address human capital needs.
  • Slow Off the Mark: Diana Epstein and Reagen T. Miller on improving science, technology, engineering, and math education in schools and what it means for the nation.
  • Bad Seeds: Report from Jake Caldwell argues for reform of our direct payment agricultural subsidy programs, which could save $35 billion by 2020.
  • Bring Back BABs: Report from Jordan Eizenga and Seth Hanlon argues that the Build America Bonds worked and Congress should revive it.
  • The Year of Living Dangerously: 2010's extreme weather could be a preview of a not-too-distant future should we fail to reduce carbon dioxide pollution, write Daniel J. Weiss, Valeri Vasquez, and Ben Kaldunski.
  • Revitalizing the Golden State: Dr. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Marshall Fitz on why mimicking Arizona’s goal of mass expulsion would be economically self-destructive to California.
  • Maximizing the Promise of Community Schools: Report from Theodora Chang recommends that Congress authorize a program that provides comprehensive services that create the conditions for students to learn.
  • The False Promise of Class-Size Reduction: Matthew M. Chingos on class-size reduction and its effectiveness in the classroom.
  • Beyond Classroom Walls: Julie Kowal and Dana Brinson explain how innovative school staffing models can positively impact students.
  • Incentivizing School Turnaround : Jeremy Ayers and Melissa Lazarín propose four strategies for turning around the nation's lowest-performing schools in the reauthorization of ESEA.
  • The U.S. Global Development Council: Noam Unger and John Norris spell out some of the key considerations that should be addressed as the U.S. Global Development Council moves from concept to reality.
  • The Importance and Promise of American Manufacturing: Michael Ettlinger and Kate Gordon explain why U.S. manufacturing matters.
  • The Demographic Change and Progressive Political Strategy Series: A series of reports about the progressives response to demographic change throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States.
  • Advancing Teacher and Principal Effectiveness: Ulrich Boser and Robin Chait give four recommendations on how to improve teacher and principal effectiveness.
  • The Perils of Privatizing the U.S. Mortgage Finance System: Report from David Min explains why the increasing conservative calls for complete privatization of our mortgage markets are wrongheaded.
  • Changing the Game: Report from Kellan Baker and Jeff Krehely explores how the Affordable Care Act will affect gay and transgender populations.
  • Funding Education Equitably: Report from Saba Bireda highlights districts that have taken aggressive steps to make school funding more transparent and equitable.
  • A Rising Tide or a Shrinking Pie: Report from Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Marshall Fitz shows why Arizona’s current approach to immigration policy is economically self-destructive.
  • Cut Spending in the Tax Code: Seth Hanlon and Michael Ettlinger explain why reducing spending in the tax code should be discussed in Congress's budget debates.
  • The Origins and Evolution of Progressive Economics: Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin examine several core assumptions that broadly define a progressive approach to economics in terms of theory, values, and practice.
  • Inclusive Capitalism for the American Workforce: Richard B. Freeman, Joseph R. Blasi, and Douglas L. Kruse on why adopting broad-based incentive plans will improve economic performance and help restore the relation between worker incomes and economic growth.
  • Race to the Top and Teacher Preparation: Strengthening teacher education is an essential part of any strategy to improve America’s primary and secondary schools, writes Edward Crowe.
  • Doing What Works Annual Report : The Doing What Works project launched in February 2010. This report provides a sampling of the project's accomplishments and a preview of what's ahead.
  • Restoring Tricare: The cost of military health care could eventually begin to divert funding away from other crucial national security initiatives, write Lawrence Korb, Laura Conley, and Alex Rothman.
  • Making Health Reform Work: Antitrust enforcement needs to be a tool and not an obstacle to improving our health care system, writes David Balto.
  • Social Networks, Privacy, and Freedom of Association: Peter Swire explores the intersection of privacy and freedom of association in this report.
  • Principals’ Approaches to Developing Teacher Quality: Morgaen L. Donaldson aims to inform policymakers regarding how principals could exert a more positive influence on teacher quality.
  • Essential Elements of Teacher Policy in ESEA: Federal policy should challenge states to set big goals for teacher effectiveness and fair teacher distribution—and to assess both through meaningful evaluation.
  • The Case for State Food Action Plans: Joel Berg and Joy Moses on food action plans and bringing states closer to reaching hunger and obesity-reduction goals.
  • A More Proactive U.S. Approach to the Georgia Conflicts: Report from Samuel Charap and Cory Welt offers recommendations for beginning a conflict resolution process on the Georgia conflicts.
  • Beyond Recovery : Recommendations for a regional ecosystem restoration plan to help coastal communities recover their past strength and provide the building blocks for a new, more diversified economic growth strategy.
  • The Case for Strategic Export Promotion: Christian Weller and Luke Reidenbach on why closing the U.S. high-tech trade deficit is good for competitiveness and the economy.
  • Social Impact Bonds: Jeffrey B. Liebman examines social impact bonds, a promising new financing model to accelerate social innovation and improve government performance.
  • Disrupting College: We must adjust our focus and policies to make quality postsecondary education affordable to more people, write Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, Louis Caldera, and Louis Soares.
  • Faulty Conclusions Based on Shoddy Foundations: David Min debunks Peter Wallison's claim, based on flawed data from Edward Pinto, that the federal affordable housing policies caused the financial crisis.
  • Turning Around the Nation’s Lowest-Performing Schools : Karen Baroody explains how districts can make fundamental changes in the way they think about and provide support for schools.
  • Keeping the Faith : Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite and Marta Cook highlight the efforts of faith communities and LGBT advocates in Tennessee.
  • The Secret to Programs that Work: Jitinder Kohli, William D. Eggers, and John Griffith lay out a system for designing and evaluating effective government programs.
  • Talking It Up: Alon Cohen on how all three branches of the federal government can support automatic foreclosure mediation across the country.
  • Working for Equality in the Great Lakes State: In order to achieve human rights and equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in Michigan, both the faith and LGBT communities need to more fully understand each other and work together, write Sally Steenland and Susan Thistlethwaite.
  • A Responsible Market for Housing Finance: CAP's Mortgage Finance Working Group offers a comprehensive approach to creating a stable and equitable American housing finance system.
  • Unconstitutional and Costly: Gebe Martinez shows how cities have been paying the price for costly local immigration enforcement policies.
  • Profiting from Health Care: Julie Margetta Morgan and Ellen-Marie Whelan investigate for-profit colleges' claims of contributing to our health care workforce.
  • Return on Educational Investment: Report from Ulrich Boser presents findings from a yearlong study of the efficiency of the nation’s public education system.
  • CLEAN Contracts: Making Clean Local Energy Accessible Now: Richard Caperton, Bracken Hendricks, John Lauer, and Courtney Hight explain the benefits of CLEAN contracts.
  • Conduct Befitting a Great Power: Nina Hachigian offers recommendations to help build a better 21st century relationship of global responsibility between the United States and China.
  • Rising to the Challenge: No longer the maker of just low-cost consumer goods, China's investments in technology innovation should serve as a warning to the United States.
  • Achieving Accountable and Affordable Care: David M. Cutler and Judy Feder break down how to how to design and structure accountable care organizations.
  • Measuring the Gaps: Report from Lesley Russell outlines how provision in the Affordable Care Act should be implemented to help gather data to address health disparities.
  • Easing the Burden: Report from Lesley Russell addresses five key issues in addressing current racial and ethnic disparities in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic illnesses.
  • A Modern Corporate Tax : In a report jointly released by the Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Institute, Alan J. Auerbach discusses a corporate tax reform plan that delivers a host of economic advantages to U.S. businesses and American workers.
  • Grading Higher Education : Bridget Terry Long discusses why consumers should be given the information they need to maximize their college investment in this paper jointly released by the Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project.
  • The 'Dual Eligible' Opportunity: Karen Davenport, Renée Markus Hodin, and Judy Feder discuss how to improve care and reduce costs for individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
  • Building It Up, Not Tearing It Down: Christian E. Weller proposes a Social Security system worthy of meeting America’s challenges in the 21st century.
  • Social Protection Is a Necessity, Not a Privilege : The Great Recession highlights deficiencies in social protection systems that should be in place to promote broad-based economic growth.
  • Beyond Moral Justification: Isha Vij and Sabina Dewan examine the importance of delivering just jobs to women.
  • Bringing Coherence to the Promotion of Just Jobs: Developed and developing countries alike must get behind an agenda that focuses on the creation of “just jobs” for the global economy.
  • Separate and Unequal: Jessica Arons and Madina Agénor explain how the Hyde Amendment is a policy that not only violates reproductive rights and principles of gender equity but one that undermines racial and economic justice as well.
  • The U.S. Role in International Climate Finance: The Alliance for Climate Protection and the Center for American Progress lay out an agenda for boosting U.S. leadership in financing clean energy projects worldwide.
  • The First Step: Michael Ettlinger, Michael Linden, and Reece Rushing on what we can do to address the long-term federal budget deficit.
  • The Social Life of College Information: Julie Margetta Morgan and Louis Soares on ways to enhance the college decision-making process for students and their families.
  • The College Conundrum: John Schmitt and Heather Boushey discuss why young people haven't responded to higher returns to college by rushing to attend college.
  • Creating 21st Century Jobs : David H. Autor and Mark Duggan, Alan J. Auerbach, and Bridget Terry Long discuss creating 21st century jobs in four new papers released by the Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project.
  • When the Stakes Are High, Can We Rely on Value-Added? : Dan Goldhaber examines how we can accurately and effectively evaluate teacher performance to improve teaching quality.
  • Incorporating Student Performance Measures into Teacher Evaluation Systems: Jennifer Steele, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Stecher argue that policymakers should take particular measurement considerations into account when using student achievement data to inform teacher evaluations.
  • A Focus on Competitiveness: Report from John Podesta, Sarah Rosen Wartell, and Jitinder Kohli outlines a framework for making the United States more economically competitive.
  • Realignment: Managing a Stable Transition to Afghan Responsibility: Report from Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, Brian Katulis, and Lawrence Korb outlines how to promote a self-sustaining government in Afghanistan.
  • U.S. Foreign Aid Reform Meets the Tea Party: John Norris on how foreign aid reform can continue to gain traction in the 112th Congress.
  • Stop the Conference: Marshall Fitz and Angela Kelley explain the economic and fiscal consequences of conference cancellation as a result of S.B. 1070, Arizona's harsh, anti-immigrant legislation.
  • Cutting the Cost of Clean Energy 1.0 : CAP and the Coalition for Green Capital propose three new pillars of clean energy investment strategy to prioritize deployment of existing advanced clean energy technologies.
  • A $400 Billion Opportunity: Raj Sharma outlines 10 ways the federal government can save $400 billion over 10 years by changing the way it buys goods and services.
  • The Power of the President: Recommendations to advance progressive change from the Center for American Progress and Senior Fellows, compiled by Sarah Rosen Wartell and with a forward from John Podesta.
  • Ties that Bind: Winny Chen lays out an agenda for ensuring mutual prosperity and peace between the United States, Taiwan, and China.
  • Walk the Talk: Alon Cohen on why foreclosure mediation is so critical to ending our nation’s housing crisis and putting our economy back on the road to sustained recovery.
  • Investing in Clean Energy: The Center for American Progress and the Global Climate Network examine strategies to leverage private financing for clean energy projects.
  • Degree Completion Beyond Institutional Borders: Rebecca Klein-Collins, Amy Sherman, and Louis Soares examine degree completion options for nontraditional students.
  • Easy Come, EZ-GO: Brian Sponsler, Gregory Kienzl, and Alexis Wesaw take a look at increasing college-degree attainment in multistate metropolitan America.
  • A Responsible Market for Rental Housing Finance: CAP's Mortgage Finance Working Group offers recommendations in this report for the troubled multifamily rental housing market.
  • Getting Rich on Uncle Sucker: Scott Lilly examines opportunities to reduce spending in government procurement.
  • Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: Linda Darling-Hammond explains why we need a set of standards and assessments that guarantee that teachers are well prepared and ready to teach.
  • The Adoption Option: Jessica Arons explains how we can improve the adoption experience for pregnant women.
  • Big Oil Goes to College: Report from Jennifer Washburn analyzes 10 research collaboration contracts between leading energy companies and major U.S. universities.
  • “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves,” But Could Use Some Help: Joy Moses, Jacquelyn Boggess, and Jill Groblewski explain how supporting responsible fatherhood and related programs and services helps low-income mothers.
  • From a "Green Farce" to a Green Future: Immigrants shouldn't be blamed for our nation's climate woes, writes Jorge Madrid. They deserve better recognition for their contributions toward a "greener" society and economy.
  • The Role of Faith in the Progressive Movement: Marta Cook and John Halpin examine the religious roots of progressivism.
  • Universal Human Rights in Progressive Thought and Politics: John Halpin, William Schulz, and Sarah Dreier explore the origins of human rights principles and how they fit into progressivism.
  • The Progressivism of America’s Founding: Part five of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the relationship between progressivism and America's founding.
  • Adding Up the Numbers: Mark Merlis takes a look at Medicare savings from the Affordable Care Act and whether the cuts are real and sustainable over time.
  • Mental Health Care Services in Primary Care : Lesley Russell examines how mental health services could be better integrated into primary care, and how health care reform can help this happen.
  • Navigating Political Currents to Achieve Middle East Peace: David A. Halperin and Matthew Duss explain why the renewed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations will require sustained and determined U.S. involvement from the onset.
  • Strong and Sustainable : Lawrence J. Korb and Laura Conley propose a set of defense cuts that can cut our deficit while still maintaining national security.
  • Silos of Small Beer: Maryann Feldman and Lauren Lanahan's look at the efficacy of regional innovation programs in the eastern Midwest regional economy.
  • Breaking the Mold: Isabel Owen examines two schoolwide reform models that challenge the rigid boundaries of the conventional school model in order to close the achievement gap.
  • The Rural Solution : Doris Terry Williams explains the value of full-service community schools in rural areas.
  • A Thousand Cuts: Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden detail what reducing the federal budget deficit through large spending cuts could really look like.
  • Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Harry Holzer explains why we need a set of policy responses to mitigate the effects of the Great Recession on parents and their children.
  • Reducing Student Poverty in the Classroom: Report from Saba Bireda and Joy Moses outlines antipoverty programs operating in our nation's schools and how these can be expanded.
  • Levers for Change: William J. Slotnik proposes three levers that state departments of education can use to achieve better results in underperforming schools.
  • Next Generation Charter Schools: Report from Melissa Lazarín and Feliza Ortiz-Licon shows four charter schools that are leading the way in meeting the needs of their Latino students and English language learners.
  • Assimilation Today: Report from Dowell Myers and John Pitkin shows how today's immigrants are assimilating into American society.
  • True North: Report from David Min provides insight into why Canada didn't see the same, painful housing bubble as the United States and what we can learn from it.
  • The Other Half: Report from Liz Weiss and Page Gardner discusses how improving the economic situation of unmarried women will help our national economy out of the Great Recession.
  • Measuring What Matters: Edward Crowe details a new system for holding teacher preparation programs accountable for their graduates' results in the classroom.
  • Better, Not Smaller: Report on new survey data from Guy Molyneux and Ruy Teixeira explains why Americans are losing faith in the federal government and how to gain back their trust.
  • The Generation Gap on Government: Report from Guy Molyneux and Ruy Teixeira looks at why and how the Millennial generation is the most pro-government generation and what this means for our future.
  • Preparing for the Next Public Health Crisis: Ellen-Marie Whelan and Lesley Russell outline a new Public Health Response Plan to most effectively respond to the next public health crisis the nation faces.
  • Opening Doors: Report from Liz Weiss lays out reforms for ensuring the Workforce Investment Act better serves women.
  • Scaling New Heights: Geoff Mulgan and Jitinder Kohli provide strategies for spotting small successes in the public sector and making them big in this Doing What Works project report.
  • Capital Ideas: Jitinder Kohli and Geoff Mulgan provide a menu of more than 20 different ways public agencies are promoting the generation of great ideas in this Doing What Works project report.
  • Now We’re Talking: Report from Alon Cohen and Andrew Jakabovics examines current state-based foreclosure mediation programs and offers proposals for how to bring them to scale.
  • Show Us the Money: Report from Sima Gandhi argues that investors deserve clear information about executive compensation and explains how to get there.
  • Brick by Brick: Report from C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. discusses a half-decade of immigration enforcement and the need for comprehensive immigration reform.
  • Low-Income Fathers Need to Get Connected: Report from Joy Moses shows how helping low-income fathers will benefit children and families.
  • On the Streets: Report from Nico Sifra Quintana, Josh Rosenthal, and Jeff Krehely examines and offers recommendations for the federal response to gay and transgender homeless youth.
  • How to Power the Energy Innovation Lifecycle: Sean Pool analyzes the innovation lifecycle to provide insight into how we can get clean energy industries performing at their peak.
  • Building a U.S. Coast Guard for the 21st Century: Report from Lawrence Korb, Sean Duggan, and Laura Conley outlines challenges facing the Coast Guard and how the federal government can work to address them.
  • Less Is More: Report from John Norris and Andrew Sweet details how a sustainable security approach would improve our national security and our federal budget process.
  • Devil in the Details: Report from Saba Bireda explains how state law shapes the dismissal process and analyzes the provisions common in state law that make teacher dismissal difficult.
  • Revealing Hidden Inequities in School Districts: Inequities in resource allocation within school districts have long gone unnoticed. Experts at CAP event discuss what we can do to bring them to light.
  • Lifting the Fog of Averages: Report from John Affeldt and Guillermo Mayer on enacting and implementing California’s requirement to report actual per pupil expenditures school by school.
  • Comparable, Schmomparable: Report from Raegen Miller uncovers evidence of inequity in the allocation of funds for teacher salary within California’s public school districts.
  • Implications of Health Care Reform for Employers: An analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and what it means for American businesses.
  • Feeding Opportunity: Report from Joel Berg explains why we need to care about child hunger and outlines strategies for eradicating it as part of a goal to cut poverty in half in 10 years.
  • Beyond Arizona: Report from Gebe Martinez argues that without real federal solutions frustration over our broken immigration system will continue to rise.
  • Faith and Family Equality: Sally Steenland, Nan Futrell, and Marta Cook examine the passage of an antigay adoption ballot initiative in Arkansas in 2008 and its implications for faith communities and advocates.
  • Governance in Afghanistan: Report from Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman outlines challenges to improving Afghanistan's system of government and how the United States can address them.
  • Teacher to Teacher: Report from Susan Moore Johnson, John P. Papay, Sarah E. Fiarman, Mindy Sick Munger, and Emily Kalejs Qazilbash looks at Peer Assistance and Review programs and how they can improve teacher effectiveness.
  • Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Report from Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar examines how recently passed health care legislation will address the childhood obesity epidemic.
  • The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market: The Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project address how to create good, well-paid jobs to sustain and grow America's middle class in a new report and event.
  • Out of the Shadows: Report from Michael Adams and Jeff Krehely discusses solutions for addressing the unique barriers and inequalities faced by LGBT elders.
  • Progress, Regress: A look at economic performance under Presidents Clinton and Bush shows that progressive policies yielded strong and sustained growth, which was swept away by Bush’s failed policies.
  • The New Levant: Report from Michael Werz explores Turkey's emergence in the eastern Mediterranean and its implications in U.S. foreign policy.
  • Waiting for Leadership: Doing What Works project report from Anne Joseph O’Connell on President Obama’s record in staffing key agency positions and how to improve the appointments process.
  • Social Movements and Progressivism: Part three of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the influence of social movements for equality and economic justice on the development of progressivism.
  • The Progressive Tradition in American Politics: Part two of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the politics of national progressivism from the agrarian populists to the Great Society.
  • The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America: Part one of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the philosophical and theoretical development of progressivism as a response to the rise of industrial capitalism.
  • Assessing the “Reset”: Report from Samuel Charap makes recommendations for cementing the gains made in the first year of the Obama administration's reset with Russia.
  • Government Spending Undercover: Report from Lily Batchelder and Eric Toder offers recommendations for reforming IRS-administered spending.
  • America’s Hidden Power Bill: Report from Richard W. Caperton and Sima J. Gandhi argues that federal tax expenditures for energy should receive equal treatment with direct spending in the budget process.
  • Audit the Tax Code: Report from Sima J. Gandhi sets out the Doing What Works philosophy on tax expenditure reform.
  • Securing Our Borders: Report from Chuck McCutcheon on doing what works to ensure immigration reform is complete and comprehensive.
  • Education Transformation: Doing What Works project report analyzes federal education programs up for elimination, consolidation, or restructuring.
  • Homeownership Done Right: Report from David Abromowitz and Janneke Ratcliffe explains how successful affordable housing programs can help point the way forward out of the U.S. housing crisis.
  • Doing What Works to End U.S. Hunger: Report from Joel Berg offers recommendations for making federal food programs more effective.
  • Implementing the Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” : Report from Lawrence J. Korb, Sean E. Duggan, and Laura Conley analyzes the critical areas where military rules must change to effectively implement a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
  • Better Health Care at Lower Costs: Report from Ellen-Marie Whelan and Lesley Russell on why health care reform will drive better models of health care delivery.
  • El Costo de las Deportaciones Masivas de Inmigrantes Indocumentados: Un reporte de Marshall Fitz y Gebe Martinez demuestra que las políticas de aplicación de la ley necesarias para la deportación masiva son extremadamente irrealizables y prohibitivamente costosas.
  • Advancing the Economic Security of Unmarried Women: A report by Liz Weiss and Page Gardner outlines an economic security agenda for unmarried women with a focus on key areas of legislation in the 111th Congress.
  • Driving Growth: Report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, United Auto Workers, and Center for American Progress shows how clean cars and climate policy can create jobs.
  • From Deliberation to Dysfunction: Report from Scott Lilly urges the Senate to adopt modest procedural changes to curb some of the filibuster’s worst abuses and make the Senate more responsible.
  • A New National Approach to Career Navigation for Working Learners: A report by Vickie Choitz, Louis Soares, and Rachel Pleasants details the inadequacy of our current career navigation assistance and why the United States needs a new approach.
  • Treating Different Teachers Differently: Report from Robin Chait and Raegen Miller on how state policy should act on differences in teacher performance to improve teacher effectiveness and equity.
  • Stopping the Destructive Spread of Small Arms: Report from Rachel Stohl and EJ Hogendoorn looks at how small arms proliferation endangers development and creates insecurity around the world.
  • Supporting Effective Teaching Through Teacher Evaluation: A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske.
  • Removing Chronically Ineffective Teachers: Report from Robin Chait explores the reasons that teacher dismissal is rarely pursued and opportunities for change.
  • Our Working Nation: Report from Heather Boushey and Ann O'Leary on how working women are reshaping America’s families and economy and what it means for policymakers.
  • Out of the Running?: A report from Kate Gordon, Julian L. Wong, and JT McLain explains what is at stake for the United States if it doesn't become a top player in the emerging global low-carbon economy.
  • Development Funding Done Right: Kari Manlove, Andrew Light, Kate Gordon, and Richard Caperton on how to ensure multilateral development banks finance clean and renewable energy projects to combat global warming.
  • A Path to Homeownership: Report from Rick Jacobus and David M. Abromowitz explains shared equity purchase assistance and how it would help promote homeownership.
  • Golden Goals for Government Performance: Report from Jitinder Kohli sets out a federal government performance model based on an analysis of what works at five different governments on three continents.
  • Doing What Works: A report by John D. Podesta and Reece Rushing stresses on the importance of transforming and modernizing government from top to bottom.
  • Expanded Time, Enriching Experiences : A report by Kathleen Traphagen and Christine Johnson-Staub examines the development and evolution of ELT school-community partnerships.
  • Ringing the Bell for K-12 Teacher Tenure Reform: A report by Patrick McGuinn provides an overview of state teacher tenure reform in the United States and highlights recommendations for policymakers going forward.
  • Bitter Pill, Better Formula: Raegen Miller and Cynthia Brown outline changes toward a single, fair, and equitable formula for disbursing funds to high-poverty schools.
  • The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict: The poor, the professionals, and the missing middle need policies that allow them to achieve the American Dream, write Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams in this report.
  • Closing the Health Care Workforce Gap: Report from Daniel J. Derksen and Ellen-Marie Whelan reforming federal health care workforce policies to meet 21st century needs.
  • How Ideology Trumped Science: Scott H. Evertz discusses how the Obama administration can reform the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
  • New Jobs Through Better Health Care: David Cutler and Neeraj Sood examine the potential impact of health care reform on employment growth in the new decade.
  • Raising the Floor for American Workers: Report from Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda shows that comprehensive immigration reform would lay the foundation for widespread and robust economic growth.
  • Paying for the Troop Escalation in Afghanistan: Report from Lawrence J. Korb outlines 10 ways to cut baseline defense spending to fight this war within our means.
  • Principles for Immigration Reform: Marshall Fitz and Angela Kelley provide guidelines for fixing our broken immigration system.
  • Equal Health Care for All: Lesley Russell explores racial and ethnic health care disparities and how health care reform could help bridge the gap.
  • A Responsible Market for Housing Finance: Draft white paper from CAP's Mortgage Finance Working Group on the future of the U.S. secondary market for residential mortgages.
  • A Path to Balance: Michael Ettlinger, Michael Linden, and Lauren Bazel outline a strategy for realigning the federal budget.
  • Training Tomorrow's Workforce: Collaboration between community colleges and apprenticeship programs can help train a stronger workforce and expand career opportunities, writes Robert Lerman.
  • Strong Students, Strong Workers: Community colleges can provide the postsecondary credentials needed by low-income youth and working adults to increase their labor market earnings, and the overall skills needed to keep the American workforce productive and competitive, write Harry Holzer and Demetra Nightingale.
  • Prosperous Immigrants, Prosperous Americans: A report by Marshall Fitz outlines a 21st century immigration system that will stimulate innovation, enhance competitiveness, and cultivate a high-skilled U.S. workforce.
  • Re-imagining Community Colleges in the 21st Century: Brian Pusser and John Levin outline a student-centered approach to higher education.
  • Effective Technical Assistance Principles: Report from Jessica L. Lewis and Matthew G. Springer investigates technical assistance used in three performance pay programs and offers recommendations for providers.
  • The Promise of Proficiency: Report from J.B. Schramm and E. Kinney Zalesne provides recommendations for helping high schools use data to track their graduates and make decisions to help their students.
  • Meeting the Jobs Challenge: Report on how to avoid another jobless—or job-loss—economic recovery.
  • Clean Energy for the Wild Blue Yonder: Alexandra Kougentakis, Tom Kenworthy, and Daniel J. Weiss provide recommendations in this report on how the Air Force can expand its use of renewable energy.
  • Union and District Partnerships to Expand Learning Time: Report from Melissa Lazarin and Isabel Owen examines three collaborations between unions and school districts to expand learning time.
  • Integrating Security: Lawrence J. Korb, Sean Duggan, and Laura Conley present a new progressive agenda for national security in this report.
  • Seniors' Stake in Health Reform: Report from Marilyn Moon defines what health reform would mean for Medicare beneficiaries.
  • The Next Phase: Trip report from a delegation to China led by John Podesta and findings on the future of U.S.-China relations.
  • Staying Competitive: Report from Marc Goulden, Karie Frasch, and Mary Ann Mason looks at what we can do about the lack of family responsible benefits for America's researchers.
  • Leaders and Laggards: A state-by-state report card on educational innovation from CAP, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Frederick M. Hess of the American Enterprise Institute.
  • China’s New Engagement in the International System: Report from Nina Hachigian explores China's relationship to the international system and role in tackling transnational threats.
  • Cooperation Is the Key: A proposal from John D. Podesta, Andrew Light, and Julian L. Wong on U.S.-China collaboration on climate technology.
  • A Look at Community Schools: Report from Saba Bireda explains how community schools can alleviate obstacles outside the classroom that hinder student achievement, particularly for those living in poverty.
  • New York City Green-Collar Jobs Roadmap: Report from Urban Agenda and CAP lays out how to create an inclusive green economy in New York City.
  • New Tools for Old Traumas: Report from Sarah K. Dreier and William F. Schulz on using 21st century technologies to combat human rights atrocities.
  • A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything : Women as half of all workers changes everything, and is the key piece to understanding why we are in a transformational moment.
  • Meeting the Climate Challenge: Report from CAP and the UN Foundation outlines building blocks for a global agreement on climate issues.
  • Comparing Public Spending and Priorities Across OECD Countries: Sabina Dewan and Michael Ettlinger argue that social expenditures, done well, can reap significant economic rewards during times of economic crisis.
  • Deal with It: Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden explain how we got to massive deficits and how we can begin thinking about solutions.
  • Leveling the Playing Field: Christian E. Weller and Amanda Logan make the case for policies to erase the economic discrepancies between whites and minorities.
  • Loving Thy Neighbor: Report from Sam Fulwood documents how many faith communities across the country are standing up for immigration reform.
  • The Clean-Energy Investment Agenda: Report from John Podesta, Kate Gordon, Bracken Hendricks, and Benjamin Goldstein puts forward a framework for investing in clean-energy systems and energy efficiency.
  • Beyond Business as Usual: Report from Richard Samans on G-20 leaders and principles to guide the reconstitution of the international order after the global economic crisis.
  • A Fair Deal for Taxpayer Investments: Report from Emma Coleman Jordan argues that public directors are necessary to restore trust and accountability at companies rescued by the U.S. government.
  • Unequal Opportunity Lenders?: Report from Andrew Jakabovics and Jeff Chapman shows racial disparities in higher-priced lending among the 14 largest banks and subsidiaries during the housing bubble.
  • Paving the Way for Personalized Medicine: Report from Michael Rugnetta and Whitney Kramer offers ways to integrate personalized medicine into our health care system.
  • The Geography of Innovation: The federal government can assume a vital role in helping to grow regional centers of innovation, write Jonathan Sallet, Ed Paisley, and Justin R. Masterman in this report.
  • Haiti’s Changing Tide: Report from Reuben Brigety and Natalie Ondiak lays out a sustainable security strategy for Haiti that would initiate a virtuous circle of development in the country.
  • Securing America's Future: Report from Christopher Beddor, Winny Chen, Rudy deLeon, Shiyong Park, and Daniel J. Weiss argues for stronger national security through reduced oil dependence.
  • A New Measurement for Poverty: Report from Mark Greenberg discusses how a new measure of poverty would affect funding formulas and benefits eligibility.
  • Secret Recipes Revealed: Raegen Miller provides some clarity to the formulas used in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and how they could be improved.
  • Opening the “Front Door” of a Reformed Health Care System: CAP Action report from Victoria Wachino and Karen Davenport outlines six lessons from Medicaid on promoting participation in health coverage.
  • Achieving a Culture of Health Coverage: CAP Action report from Peter Harbage and Hilary Haycock details a plan for making individual health insurance more affordable and accessible.
  • Rebuilding America: CAP and the Energy Future Coalition present a framework for investing in energy efficiency retrofits.
  • Reproductive Roulette: Presentation from Reece Rushing shows how reproductive health is declining in the United States while dangerous chemicals are on the rise, and how we can forge a new way forward.
  • Making Government Work for Families: Report from Ann O’Leary discusses the federal government’s role as employer and contractor in improving family-friendly policies.
  • The Coming End of the Culture Wars: Ruy Teixeira analyzes new data and shows that the culture wars, far from coming back, are likely coming to an end as a defining aspect of our politics.
  • Window of Opportunity for a Two-State Solution: Brian Katulis, Marc Lynch, and Robert C. Adler provide policy recommendations to the Obama administration on the Israeli-Palestinian front .
  • Aligned by Design : Report from Craig Jerald on how teacher compensation reform can support and reinforce other educational reforms.
  • It’s More Than Money: The lesson of performance-based compensation is one of institutional change, writes William J. Slotnik in this report.
  • Breaking Through on Technology: Report from CAP and the Global Climate Network on overcoming the barriers to the development and wide deployment of low-carbon technology.
  • After the “Reset”: Samuel Charap outlines a strategy and new agenda for U.S. Russia policy in advance of the Moscow summit between Presidents Obama and Medvedev.
  • Taken for a Ride: A report by Christian E. Weller discusses risks in the retirement system and what policymakers can do to protect retirees' income.
  • Financing Health Care Reform: David M. Cutler and Judy Feder propose a plan to insure that the cost of health reform is budget-neutral.
  • So Long, Lake Wobegon?: Report from Morgaen L. Donaldson discusses strategies for using teacher evaluation to raise teacher quality.
  • Fixing Tenure: Joan Baratz-Snowden puts forward a proposal for assuring teacher effectiveness and due process.
  • Signals on the Fritz: Amanda Logan and Christian E. Weller look at how energy price swings affect consumers and businesses and what policymakers can do.
  • Ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”: Practical steps to repeal the ban on openly gay men and women in the U.S. military from Lawrence J. Korb, Sean Duggan, and Laura Conley.
  • Saving Money by Modernizing the Health Care System: We can save money by modernizing the health care system; Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin and David Cutler explain how.